Letting it go

I got chastised by an older gentleman in a newer model SVU yesterday. I'm the one that was in the wrong in his eyes. Here's the recap:
I put on my turn signal to get in the far right lane. This polite gentleman decided to speed up and not let me over. Luckily, for that situation, the lane I was in was a turning lane as well. So, after calming down off my fifteen seconds rage moment, I zoomed into my lane to get clear on that guy and focus on driving to get to work. When traffic came to a complete stop, that same gentleman decided to tell me from his vehicle that I cut him off in traffic. I laughed in my head knowing that I wanted nothing to do with the man. I decided to tell him the exact truth of the situation(basically what I mentioned here), which some would say is my first mistake. Then, the passenger in my vehicle injected in a no so nice way to the guy. The gentleman's last response to me is that "ya'll are all the same". 

First, don't pigeonhole me in a category when you know me briefly from a traffic encounter. I don't know necessarily what he meant by saying "ya'll".  It would not have been nice for me to say that "ya'll older gentlemen in Kangol hats that drives SVU's are all the same". First of all, let it go and focus on the road (I did after fifteen seconds). Second, if you can't let it go and you gotta say something, be original, funny and/or specific. You could say "hey buddy, where did you learn to drive, at an amusement park?" or the classic "Did you get your license from, a Cracker Jack box"? See, no only did you let it linger for too long but you also put out something that was uninspired. Very lame, sir. I've let it go now.

A viewpoint

I just finished reading a post on social media when someone interject race into the tragedy that happened with the school shooting yesterday. I posted a comment to this and I wanted to share it with you all.

You see that some people focus on the wrong thing. You can't let things and people breathe. People just lost their children, family members and friends due to this tragedy and you have the nerves to talk about race. You don't know the makeup of those kids and it shouldn't matter. The topic is violence and the question is how to stop so many of these acts from happening. It's time to wake up from a negative place in this world and start talking about how to positively change it. We are all people and it is time we start acting like we care about all people.